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authorVito Caputo <vcaputo@pengaru.com>2023-01-19 23:01:07 -0800
committerVito Caputo <vcaputo@pengaru.com>2023-01-21 13:34:12 -0800
commit348eaf96c8b38795319d785a0b1f1749ffb1a55a (patch)
treef3cbbfce78bffc69d14ec9987d85cdb5472d1e38 /src/modules/meta2d
parenta583ead0f41e6bcec76b32a95985667fdbe2192a (diff)
modules/rocket: implement GNU Rocket integration
This adds a rudimentary but functional rocket module for sequencing "tapped" variables in rototiller modules according to a timeline via GNU Rocket editors. Currently this only supports a single seq_module= as a setting which will be used for rendering. Any tapped variables present in the nested modules under seq_module will be available for sequencing, and should automatically appear in a connected rocket editor. If you specify connect=off then rocket sync tracks will be read from the filesystem if present. It's a bit clumsy as-is due to how the GNU Rocket library handles this currently. There's a "base" label concept for the virtual rocket device, and the tracks are intended to be files in a directory named using that base= setting. The way you create those track files is by triggering a remote export from the editor while connected. The location of the directory is relative to the cwd of the rototiller process, and you can't specify absolute paths as the base= setting to be explicit about where things go. The setting isn't really a path, as that's not what the library wants it to be. It's an area in need of improvement. In any case, as long as you start with the same base= setting, from the same CWD, as when you did the remote export, you can re-run with connect=off and the exported tracks will be used automagically and things should replay without the editor connected. If you start with connect=on, which is the default, you need to have the editor already running. Otherwise the rocket module will fail @ context create, and you'll get a confusing error about being unable to allocate memory. This is just for now, the context create needs to start returning an errno instead of just the context pointer so the error messages can be more informative now that context create may be doing complicated things like connecting to sockets. Another thing to improve is probably having the module just reconnect periodically if connect=on but it failed @ context create. It could just start anyways and not fail the context create at all there, and just start working once you get the editor online. That'd be a better user experience. This is a good first step regardless...
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